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FRAMES Partner Sites

FRAMES offers website hosting and services for wildland fire researchers and managers. These Partner Sites are developed and maintained by partners using FRAMES tools. Some Partner Sites are available to the public, while others are Intranet sites where information and tools are shared within a select group.

	Assessing Burn Severity (ABS) Project The interagency Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) funded the Rapid Response project "Assessing the Causes, Consequences and Spatial Variability of Burn Severity" to be conducted during and after active fire incidents. The project's goal is to investigate the spatial variability in fire effects and to explore relationships between burn severity and fuels, fire behavior, local weather, and topography.
	FEAT/FIREMON Integrated (FFI) Fire Ecology Assessment Tool (FEAT) and FIREMON Integrated is a monitoring software tool designed to assist managers with collection, storage, and analysis of ecological information. It was constructed through a complimentary integration of FEAT and FIREMON.
	FHAES (Fire History Analysis and Exploration System) FHAES is the result of an effort to redevelop and enhance components of the FHX2 computer program, originally a DOS-based program considered to be the standard for fire history analysis. FHAES is a web-based design that is user-friendly and easily accessible to a broad range of users.
	Fire and Fire Surrogates Study (FFS) FFS is a national Joint Fire Science Program study to assess the effects of fire and fire surrogate fuel treatments. The goal is to quantify the costs and ecological consequences of alternative fire and fire surrogate restorative treatments in a number of forest types and conditions in the United States. Priority is given to forests with low to moderate severity natural fire regimes.
	FIREMON (Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol) FIREMON is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. FIREMON has been integrated with the National Park Service Fire Ecology Assessment Tool into a new monitoring tool called FFL. FIREMON will still be supported but further development and updates may be suspended.
	FOFEM (First Order Fire Effects Model) FOFEM is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM provides quantitative fire effects information for tree mortality, fuel consumption, mineral soil exposure, smoke and soil heating.
	FRCC (Fire Regime Condition Class) FRCC is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation, fules, and disturbance regimes. Assessing FRCC can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.
	Human Dimensions and Fire Social Sciences (HDFSS) The goal of the HDFSS is to provide social science fire managers can use. Teams of scientists and fire managers find and synthesize the best available social science and apply it to fire management. The teams then deliver the results in applications and tools designed by fire science users and researchers working together to create useful knowledge in forms that make sense to fire managers.
	IFTDSS (Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System) Project Information The interagency Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), in concert with the National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group (NIFCG), funded a multi-phased study to assess existing wildland fire management software tools and systems, the Software Tools and Systems (STS) Study. This study resulted in the development of the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS). IFTDSS is a framework that organizes and makes available a large number of pre-existing software models. It provides access through the Internet and provides users with a single user interface to multiple software tools.
	JFSP Biomass Review This site was developed to showcase the results of the JFSP-funded project "A Review of Available Economic and Financial Biomass Information and Tools for Federal Land Managers in the West." The Review provides a synthesis of information products available to federal land managers to enhance their ability to understand and deal with the economic and financial aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction treatments.
	LLC-IAWF-JFSP Webinars Archive FRAMES is cataloging and archiving webinars produced by the Connecting Fire Science and Resource Management Monthly Webinar Series, co-hosted by the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, the International Association of Wildland Fire, and the JFSP. This webinar series is designed to increase dialogue between researchers, managers and practitioners by covering topics that are of concern to all. Upon request, FRAMES is also cataloging and archiving webinars produced by some of the regional JFSP Knowledge Exchange Consortia.
	NIFTT (National Interagency Fuels, Fire, and Vegetation Technology Transfer) NIFTT is chartered by the National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group (NIFCG). NIFTT assists NIFCG in fulfilling its purpose of developing and implementing an effective interagency fuels management program to address risks related to severe fires in wildland-urban interface communities and to restore healthy ecological systems in other wildland areas.
	Northern Rockies Climate and Fire (NRCF) Project The interagency Joint Fire Sciences Program funded this 3-year research project to identify the climate drivers of regional fire and fuel dynamics in the Northern Rockies in the past, present, and future. Regional fire years were identified from two sources: multicentury tree-ring reconstructions and multidecadal fire atlases.
	WFDSS (Wildland Fire Decision Support System) Spatial Data Resources This intent of this site is to provide dynamic WFDSS information for WFDSS Spatial Data. This site is specific to the WFDSS application and is meant to provide information to users of WFDSS and to individuals who do not have access to WFDSS. The information provided is dynamic and updates are ongoing.

FRAMES RCS Partner

The FRAMES Resource Cataloging System (RCS) is a tool for wildland fire and other natural resource professionals to search for information about fire research and management resources, and also to catalog information about resources they have produced. The RCS currently contains more than 9,000 records from the FRAMES Resource Catalog, and also accesses an additional 26,000 resources from the Tall Timbers E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database. To access the RCS, look for the white Search the Resource Catalog box in the left column of most FRAMES pages.

Tall Timbers Research Station E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database The Tall Timbers E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database provides access to bibliographic records of fire ecology and fire science literature. Since its inception in 1987, the database has been continually expanded under direction of the Tall Timbers librarian. Although international in scope, the database emphasizes the southeastern United States, the USA, and North America. Historical and current works are included.

FRAMES Intranet Portal

FRAMES offers a suite of Collaboration Services that support information sharing, communication, and management. The FRAMES intranet portal is a service that offers a secure and private space where users can login and collaborate. To get started using the intranet portal, check out this introduction tutorial covering the basics of the FRAMES intranet portal, including logging in, setting up your portal account, and navigating through the portal.

FRAMES hosts a number of intranet sites, including the following:

	FRAMES Portal Training Community This community houses all training-related tutorials, documents, and events. If you are a new Collaboration Server user, you might want to check out some of the training materials available.
	NIFTT Working Group The National Interagency Fuels, Fire, and Vegetation Technology Team (NIFTT) Working Group intranet site was developed to help NIFTT staff coordinate their day-to-day activities related to coordinating, developing, and transferring consistent, efficient, science-based fuel and fire ecology assessment tools and trainings.
	Science Application & Integration (SA&I) Program Collaboration Community This community was developed to enable document and calendar sharing by the members of the SA&I program. The program is based out of Fort Collins, Colorado, but may members are based out of other locations. Therefore a centralized, web-based platform for file and calendar sharing supports day-to-day program activities.
	Wildland Fire Management Research, Development and Application (RD&A) Collaboration Community This community was developed to enable document and calendar sharing by the members of the RD&A team. The team is based out of Boise, Idaho, but most members telecommute from other locations, and are frequently traveling to support team activities. Therefore a centralized, web-based platform for file and calendar sharing supports day-to-day team activities.

If you have any questions about FRAMES Collaboration Services, contact FRAMES Support at: contact@frames.gov

Become a FRAMES Partner

FRAMES can help you! Many of FRAMES services are free, and others are competitively priced. If you are interested in becoming a FRAMES partner, please contact us at: contact@frames.gov